Archive for the “Seen and Unseen” category

Without a State, Who Will Help the Poor?

November 16, 2007

There are people who wonder, “What will happen to the poor without the Government to support them?” For starters, this guy:
The Erie Community Foundation, in Pennsylvania, has received a pledge of $100-million from an anonymous donor.
But a more appropriate answer would be: Just about everyone. Drive down Main Street of any suburb [...]

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Critical Illness Insurance and Socialized Health Care

October 30, 2007

In July 2007 issue of Best’s Review, if you have a subscription, you’ll find an article called “Critical Care,” which discusses the current and potential future market for critical illness insurance, either as a supplemental rider to an existing health insurance policy or as a stand-alone. One comment that struck me as odd appears [...]

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In Which I Blog About SoCal

October 24, 2007

Yesterday evening I received an e-mail from my friend Jay who is “living the dream” in Tahoe City, California. Last year, on my annual winter ski trip, we hooked up with him for a night in Reno and a day at Alpine Meadows where he was working as a Supervisor/Cook/Liftie/Photographer. This spring he [...]

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Why Greenies Should Hate Ethanol

July 31, 2007

For starters, it’s bad for the environment:
…In the long term, the Amazon Rainforest, for example, will experience vast deforestation due to Brazil’s increased sugarcane production in order to meet its ethanol export goals. This inevitably will result in the slow degradation of one of the Americas most precious and fragile ecosystems…
And it is disastrous to [...]

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